Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-29
TO MYSTIC ISLAND.

About Six Hundred Members of the
 CaIedOnian Club Go to Mystic Island
 The Island as 1t Really fs-Olher
 Rxcursions by the Steamer Elm CIty.
 It was shortly after 9 o'clock yesterday morning when the steamer Elm City, under the management of Purser E. S. Barber and Captain A. F. Bishop, started from Belle dock headed down the harbor on her regular weekly trip to Mystic Island. On board were about six hundred members of the Caledo- nian club of this city and many private par ties out for days pleasure at the shore. The boat had hardly left the dock when the merry notes of the bagepipe, the Scotsman's joy, was heard on the forward deck and the members of the club gathered around to en- joy the music of their native country and the fine view of the east shore from the boat. George Robinson's orchestra was situated on the lower deck on the aft of the steamer and furnished music for the many dancers who passed the hours away in tripping the light fantastic until the bagpiper made his ap- pearance, when several members of the so- ciety indulged in regular old fashioned Scotch reel. It was nearly half past twelve o'clock when Mystic Island was sighted, and at 8 quarter of one the boat anchored at the island and the six hundred people aboard walked up the pier towards the hotel and scattered themselves in different parts of the island to enjoy a rest on shore after the three hours and half sail along the eastern coast of Connecticut. The island, which is situated about eight miles from New London and in Fishers Sound, between Monk, Ct, and Lyle's Beach, is one of the pleasantest resorts in Long Island Sound and is owned by Millionaire Osgood, of Norwich, and now under the management of Charles l.. Ockford of New London, who formerly conducted Osprey Beach. The island is twenty-five acres in area and abounds in shady walks and verdant lawns, where the breeze from the ocean tempers the summers heat. The hotel, which was rebuilt this season, will &C., commodate one hundred and twenty-five guests and has been furnished and repaint- ed throughout and amply equipped with gas, electric bells and toilet rooms on each floor, and at present forty-five regular boarders are stopping at the hotel. A large part of the island is turned into farm, from which all the vegetables and milk used in the house is supplied, while the sea food is caught in the been erected on the island for dancing, roller skating, billiards, ten-pins and basket pa- vilion for those who desire to have 8 basket picnic, and in the dancing pavilion Jack Gould and other musicians of this city fur nish music for the merry dancers. The facil-
 
 the coast, experienced men being always in attendance with their boats for the conven- fence Of those desiring an invigorating sail or sport with the hungry fish, which bite freely at this island and on the neighboring reefs. In the evening the lights from eleven lighthouses can be seen and the view from the island is a splendid one. Yesterday Landlord Ockford fed over eight hundred people with an excellent shore dinner, feeding three hundred every forty five minutes. At the noon hour yesterday MT. Ockford was called into the dining room and in few words highly commended for his excellent shore dinners. The Block Island and Watch Hill steamers stop at the island morning and afternoon and the steam CT Osprey plies between Mystic, New London and the island several times daily, making it accessible at all hours It was fully four o'clock when the whistle of tine Elm City piped forth and the people began to crowd on board again and by quarter-past four the boat was on her homeward trip. reaching Belle dock shortly before eight o'clock. Among those on board were Judge Munson, MT. Northrop, Dr. Law, Pennsylvania; J. s. Luddington and family, Albany, N: Y; c. Bradley, A. B. Mallory and family, MT. Spock of the Register, and others. The com mittee of the Caledonians consisted of Chief Logic, First Chief John Currie, Chairman Nesbit, Grant, Mckay and Sterling. Among the parties the Elm City has been chartered for are
 July 29, Knights of Sherwood Forest, Holyoke Mass, to New York and Bay Ridge.
 August 3, Golden Rule encampment, I. o. O. F., New York and Bay Ridge.
 August 4, regular trip to Mystic Island
 Augusta. sassacus encampment, | O. o. F., to New York and Bay Ridge.
 August 10 Young Mems Literary association. to New York and Bay Ridge.
 August H. Santa Maria council to Mystic Island
 August 16, St. Ignatus T. A. B. society, to Mys tic Island.
 August 17, Young Mems T. A. B. society of Meri- den to Mystic Island.
 August a3, Emmet club to New York and Bay Ridge.
 August 21 Royal Arcanum, to New York and Bay Ridge.
 August 25 Elm City council Mo- 25, to Mystic